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While Wanda Morris, DWD's Executive Director, is making headlines debating the right to have medically assisted dying in Canada, the New York Times cariied a similar debate in its pages on 10th April.
Here are four of the eight short essays:
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April 10, 2012A recent item on the web at medicalxpress.com tells the story of one Dutch pensioner's plan for his future.
A petition for the right to medically assisted dying was signed recently by over 117,000 Dutch people. They want to be able to turn out their own lights when they reach age 70 and if,in their own opinion, they have had an accomplished life. Not what everyone wants, for sure, but a better option than no choice at all...as we now suffer with in Canada.
March 1, 2012Two decades ago, the euthanasia debate in the Netherlands was shaken up by a new concept: the Drion pill. Huib Drion, then vice-president of the Dutch Supreme Court, put forward the idea of having an easily available ‘suicide pill’ for elderly people who wanted to end their lives.
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